Spirit Card Readings | Dr. JoAnne Dodgson

Rock Spirits

Forgiving

Rock Spirits teach us about forgiving as a healing path. Forgiving is about returning to the state of being before-the-giving of an injury. You may be the one injured and/or the one who caused harm. The wounds may have emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual effects.

Forgiveness brings freedom from identifying with the wounds. The injuries are life experiences, not who you really are.

Forgiving sets you free from regrets, resentments, blame, judgments, and shame.

According to the Rock Spirits, forgiveness allows us to see with clear eyes. From a grounded inner space, through the healing process of forgiving, we more clearly see ourselves, others, lived experiences, and life itself.

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Sun

Your Song

Our Sun radiates brilliant energy beyond the body of this star, touching life on earth and far beyond. Sun is always shining, even on cloudy days, even when it’s nighttime wherever you are.

Your Song is a vast as a star, like the Sun, radiating energy from the inside out, reaching far beyond your body, touching life on earth and far beyond. Your Song is your genuine self, your unique energetic signature, a vast field of knowledge, purposes, passions, and gifts. Your Song always exists within you, in your cells, in your DNA, in your inner knowings, even if this has been forgotten or squelched or buried beneath judgments and fears.

Remembering your Song is a sacred homecoming, the pathway to being genuinely you and living centered in your heart. Ask the Spirit of the Sun to help you remember how to radiate and share your brilliant and beautiful energy field, flowing from the inside out.

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Raccoon

Building the Bridge to the New

Raccoons have remarkable dexterity. They maneuver themselves in and around all kinds of places on land, in water, in wild landscapes, and urban areas. With their intelligence, ingenuity, and opposable-thumb paws, they are extremely capable of holding, gathering, manipulating, foraging, rearranging, and shaping things with great precision.

Raccoon is a guide for the Bridge Time as humanity moves from out-of-balance lifeways into the Era of the Heart. Raccoon shows the way of gathering what is needed to build new pathways, relationships, social structures, and ways of daily life.

Raccoon shows us the skillful nature of making personal and collective change. Raccoon Medicine guides us to be innovative, agile, and nimble in our quests to build the bridge to a heart-centered world.

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Lioness

Calling to the Heart of Humanity

Lioness calls to the heart of humanity because she can’t raise her cubs. The well-being of the next generations, the continuance of life on our planet, are in question.

She is calling to the heart of humanity not with blaming or shaming. She calls to the heart of humanity because she knows that in our hearts there is the knowing of how to live in balance with the web of life on earth. Humans have a natural belonging on earth and vital gifts to contribute to weaving harmony, interconnectedness, well-being, and balance.

Do you hear Lioness’ call?

What are your offerings, your choices and next steps, the gifts you want to share to weave balance with the web of life on our earth?

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Centipede

Past Lives

Centipedes walk about on their many legs. They are showing you about your many walks, your many lives. You are here now as a human and you carry the knowledges of your other lifetimes ~ as human, as other kinds of beings, on earth and other places.

You don’t have to know all the stories of other lived experiences. You do not have to recall the information in an intellectual way. Centipede Medicine is about understanding that each singular lifetime is interwoven with many walks, with the many lives that have been experienced.

You can explore past lives as experiential learning that you’ve gathered up, as gifts and sources which may offer beneficial guidance for this lifetime. You are walking with a vast body of ancient knowledge.

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Butterfly

Emergence

Butterfly’s life cycle is an extraordinary path of emergence. They move through remarkable cycles of change guided by the blueprints carried within and informed by ancestral knowings of Butterfly.

When Butterfly emerges from the chrysalis, they must take these steps on their own behalf in order to flourish and thrive. Butterfly warms their wings in the sun, standing on the threshold, readying to fly into an entirely new existence.

Butterfly is calling you to honor the changes you’ve already made as you prepare for what is emerging. Take actions on your own behalf to find your way through the thresholds, awakening balance and harmony in new ways in this time in your life.

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Grandmother Corn

Generous Abundance

Grandmother Corn shares the medicines of abundance and generosity that flow without any conditions, with no strings attached. Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharing. Nobody’s left out of the beauty and richness. Walls aren’t built to separate the haves from have-nots. There is nothing you must do to receive her nourishing gifts.

Grandmother Corn Medicine is a wide-open embrace of ampleness, plenty, and bountiful generosity. She calls us to untangle from the bindings of scarcity. She trusts in our ability to uproot from never enough, a belief which drives addictions. She guides us to dismantle the lies of less than, not good enough, and judgments of who is deserving and worthy or not.

Grandmother Corn is calling us to remember how to be and become and generously share her sacred medicines too.

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Cacao Tree

Sacred Nourishment

Cacao Tree is revered as the Tree of Life in ancestral creation stories. She is the World Tree, the Tree at the Center of the Universe. She is an eternal source of life feeding life feeding life.

Cacao Tree provides seeds that humans use to make chocolate. She knows about food as sacred medicine. When eating and drinking cacao, we are tasting and touching the seeds of the Tree of Life. We are receiving the gifts of deep enduring nourishment for body, heart, mind, and spirit.

Cacao Tree shows us the way to bring sacred nourishment into our lives. She invites you to investigate the places, beliefs, information, items, relationships, words, and foods in your life ~ are they actually nourishing for you?

In the ways of Cacao, everything that goes in and on the body is medicine.

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Coral Reef

Structures in Everyday Life

Coral Reef is an ocean-dweller, a living organism who creates intricate structures underwater. The structures are solid and always growing, being built and rebuilt through changing seasons and cycles.

Coral Reef is a guide to building the structures for your daily life so they are organic for you. These everyday life structures include time, money, relationships, food, home, health and well-being.

Coral Reef invites you to examine the structures you’ve created. Are they supportive of your life in this particular season and cycle? Does something need to be let go of, rearranged, or given more space?

Coral Reef is calling you to create structures that are supportive, empowering, and allow room for change so you can thrive in the current cycle of your life.

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Eagle

Vision

Eagle has great gifts of vision. They are able to see the long view across many miles. They also focus so clearly on close-in places and tiny details. Eagle is a guide to visioning, and not just with physical sight.

What are you envisioning, dreaming up, for your life, for others, for life on our planet? Visioning can hold big pictures and bold ideas along with little details and incremental steps.

Eagle Medicine calls you to activate your gifts of vision, your capacities to see and sense in all kinds of realms. You can hold your long-view visions while aware of and tending to details of your everyday life. Ask Eagle to show you how.

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Wild Boar

Deliciousness

Wild Boar hunt for truffles, an exquisite delicacy that lives underground. Wild Boar follow the fragrance of the truffles, dig into the dirt to find them, and gobble them up. Wild Boar allow in and enjoy the deliciousness they seek.

Wild Boar asks: What’s most delicious about life for you?

This question invites an inner quest – to claim what fills you with delight, pleasure, awe, wonder, contentment, passion, enjoyment, peace.

Wild Boar purposefully seek what they love. They trust in their ability to find what they’re looking for. There is no question about being deserving of such delectable gifts. Wild Boar instinctively bring into their lives what is delicious and deeply nourishing.

Wild Boar is setting you off on a sacred quest to remember and reclaim the deliciousness of life.

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Tree Frog

Harmony & Balance

When Tree Frogs sing, they fill the rainforest with their colorful voices. The trees in the rainforest breathe this in, soaking up the sharing. Then the trees breath out, sending waves of life energy drifting all around the earth.

So when Tree Frogs sing, they feed the rainforest. The breath of the rainforest feeds the mother earth, filling the world with harmony, weaving the web of love with love.

Tree Frog is showing you how your inner balance and harmony – simply being who you really are and doing what you naturally do – brings harmony and balance to the world all around. Your inner balance brings balance to our earth. Living centered in your heart creates a heart-centered world.

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Elk

Council of Grandmothers

Elk Medicine calls in the Council of Grandmothers. The elders have guidance and healing to share. Ask, listen, and receive the elders’ wisdom.

The Council of Grandmothers is indicating it’s time to take your rightful place in the circle – holding your center, honoring your own and others’ unique gifts, giving and receiving the knowings gathered up through lived experiences.

Elk Medicine shares the ancient feminine knowledge that holds the blueprints for a flourishing web of life.

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Flicker

Creativity

Flicker shares the gifts of creativity ~ making, birthing, co-creating, bringing something into existence. Creativity is filled with passion, exploration, relationship, and movement.

Creativity is an organic dynamic which flows through all of creation, through all life, through every human being. Flicker Medicine engages in creativity without any judgments of better than or less.

Flicker Medicine holds a wide-open understanding of creativity. Dreaming a new dream for your life and the planet. Co-creating a meal, a relationship, a conversation. Making the flow of a day. Birthing a baby, a project, a death and completion of cycles. Crafting music, poetry, dance, pottery.

Flicker is calling you to welcome, honor, explore, enjoy, and share your natural gifts of creativity.

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Dragonfly

Ancient Knowledge

Dragonfly carries ancient lineages through the spiraling flow of time, from the past to the now and shaping the future. Dragonfly Medicine is calling you to bring ancestral knowledges into contemporary times to remember the ways of harmony and balance.

Follow your passions and curiosity to find ancient art, stories, food, healing traditions, ceremony, music, structures for family and community, and relationships with the cosmos in diverse cultures, places, and times. Dragonfly Medicine understands ancestral knowledges are also shared by trees, rocks, animals, birds, oceans, and natural cycles of the sun, moon and earth.

Dragonfly Medicine brings ancestral knowledge into everyday life to leave behind the out of balance ways and generate healing, connection, and well-being.

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Lizard

Are You Awake?

Lizards soak in the sun, nourishing their aliveness, relaxed and aware, and responsive to their inner and outer worlds.

Lizard Medicine asks: Are you awake, staying connected with who you really are? Are your senses engaged, gathering information, interacting with the world around you? Are you remembering your power to choose what to say or do or think or feel next? Are you distracted? Numbed out? Disconnected?

Lizard Medicine offers a nourishing call to your awakening, to holding your center, to feeling your aliveness and being who you genuinely are.

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Dung Beetle

Clearing Away

Dung Beetle engages in the sacred task of cleaning up and clearing away. Dung Beetles are purposeful and focused, artful and respectful, as they go about their sacred tasks.

Dung Beetle is calling you to clean up your inner and outer worlds, to clear away the items, emotions, beliefs, and habitual patterns that are toxic, burdening, harmful, and distracting.

Dung Beetle Medicine is regenerative, creative, and healing.

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Sea Turtle

Home

Sea Turtles are home wherever they are and wherever they go. Sea Turtle Medicine is about exploring your relationship with home, beginning on the inside.

Being at home in your own skin. Feeling at home in your life, with your purposes, passions, gifts, and path.

How do you feel in the place where you live? Where on the planet do you feel most at home? Are you at home being part of humanity at this time on the earth?
Sea Turtle is calling you to embark on a healing quest to cultivate your inner home, so you can be at home, create a loving home, wherever you are and wherever you go.

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Fire

Adversary

Humans have long-standing relationships with fire. Fire offers many essential gifts with heat, light, comfort, cooking, land regeneration, and ceremony. Fire also causes injury and death.

How do you regard the challenging circumstances, people, and events in your life? With judgments? Fighting against? Powerlessness? Are you exhausted? Trying to take power over? Befriending? Learning? Aware of the gifts?

Fire Spirits offer transformative energies to regenerate a steady inner foundation, centered and connected, embodied and empowered, when facing a challenge or adversary. Fire Spirits guide the way to purposefully choose what you feed, to respectfully tend to yourself, others, and the circumstance, and see the potentials and gifts.

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Mountain Spirits

Seeing & Being Seen

Mountain Spirits offer guidance for creating genuine relationships by awakening the gifts of seeing and being seen. Seeing others for who they are. Allowing yourself to be seen.

Judgments and fears foster isolation and harm. Seeking others’ approval will only box you in. Requiring sameness and agreement leads to silencing, hiding, and erasure of diversity and uniqueness.

Mountains stand steadily rooted in who and what they are while weaving relationships with the vast web of life. The Spirits of the Mountains invite you to join them there ~ relating heart to heart, respect to respect, empowered being to empowered being with everyone and everything.

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Dolphin

Freedom

Dolphins swim in the ocean and breath the air. Dolphins dance between worlds, thriving in connection with vast realms and diverse beings. Dolphins openly express who they uniquely are, unbound by judgments, expectations, and fears.

Dolphin is a guide to setting yourself free from falsehoods, judgments, and fears that box you in. Listen to inner callings for a breath of fresh air. Reach through thresholds of change, exploring, awakening, remembering. Follow passions and curiosity toward deeper dives within and into what exists beyond divisions, borders, and walls.

Dolphin Medicine knows that freedom is your birthright. Free to be who you naturally are. Free to live your purposes and passions. Freedom is everybody’s birthright.

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Spider

Weaving Webs of Life

Spider weaves her webs with the very fabric of her being. Generating fibers. Joining threads. Building structures. Creating an integrated whole. Guided by ancient blueprints she carries within, Spider’s focus is unwavering as she weaves.

Spider also dismantles her webs. Unweaving. Unraveling. Dissolving patterns and forms that have completed their purposes.

Whose blueprint are you following to weave the webs of your life?

Spider calls attention to the energies and actions being used to weave relationships and structures. Tattered and torn threads may need repair and rebuilding. Perhaps it’s time to take down old webs.

Spider Medicine weaves and unweaves webs when the guidance from within and the rhythms of the earth indicate that it is time.

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Bee Goddess

Boundless Potentials

When Bee Goddess feasts on nectar in the wildflowers, her body becomes laden with pollen. She embodies a vast collection of creative possibilities. Each bit of pollen holds potentials for new life.

Bee Goddess is a guide to the realm of unbound potentials. She’s calling you to explore a vast, colorful field of possibilities. See the potentials. Gather them up. Hold them close. Share them with others.

Bee Goddess draws attention to the dreams that have been forgotten and the passions that are hidden and held back. She opens curiosity about what may exist beyond the known horizons, limited beliefs, and well-worn paths.

Bee Goddess Medicine awakens the wonder of boundless potentials. Bee Goddess embodies the fertility of being alive.

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Tumbleweed

Living in Rhythm with Natural Cycles

Tumbleweeds grow while rooted in the earth, and eventually stop soaking in nourishment from the soil. Their plant bodies harden and Tumbleweeds uproot. Calling in the winds, Tumbleweeds roll across the land and plant seeds for the generations to come.

Tumbleweed asks: Are you living in rhythm with the flow of natural cycles within you and all around?

Is it time to settle in more deeply and root? Are you stuck in place, ignoring the momentum to shift, change, and move?

Tumbleweed Medicine shares the balance of natural cycles that are purposeful, interconnected, and regenerative. Tumbleweed Medicine invites you to find your unique organic ways of moving through cycles of daily life and seasonal changes.

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Bones Spirits Bundle

free online reading

What would you like to ask the spirits?

Spirit Card Readings offer guidance and connection with spirits in JoAnne’s medicine bundle for Throwing the Bones Ceremony.

The cards in the collection below offer teachings and medicine stories given by the spirits.

Hold your question gently in your heart and mind. Click on a card, or more than one, to receive the spirits’ guidance.

Our Bone Spirits Cards magically shuffle! Refresh the page after completing each card reading. The cards will rearrange, ready and waiting for your next question.

Bone Spirits Bundle ~ Free Card Reading

Spirit Cards offer an introduction to the seventy-two spirits

in JoAnne’s medicine bundle for Throwing the Bones Ceremony.

Personal Sessions for Throwing the Bones Ceremony are available in person and online.

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